Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
7/16/1948
Place of Birth
Panama City, Panama
Also Known As
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna
Rubén Blades
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948) is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres. As songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and political inspired Nuyorican salsa to his music, creating thinking persons' (salsa) dance music. Blades has composed dozens of musical hits, the most famous of which is "Pedro Navaja," a song ...
Known For
Predator 2
as Danny Archuleta
The Super
as Marlon
Safe House
as Carlos Villar
The Devil's Own
as Edwin Diaz
Color of Night
as Hector
Homeboy
as Doctor
Chinese Box
as Jim
Disorganized Crime
as Carlos Barrios
Hands of Stone
as Carlos Eleta
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
as Jorge, Retired FBI Agent
Imagining Argentina
as Silvio Ayala
The Two Jakes
as Mickey Nice
Critical Condition
as Louis
All the Pretty Horses
as Rocha
Assassination Tango
as Miguel
Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York
as Self (archive footage)
The Josephine Baker Story
as Count Giuseppe Pepito Abatino
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
as Président Calles
One Man’s War
as Perrone
Spin
as Ernesto